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Anthropology
Chapter 1 - Anthro. in the Fields
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
01/27/2014

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Ethnocentrism
Definition
Belief your own culture is superior above other cultures
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Culture-Bound
Definition
Perspective of theories about the world and life due to the value's of your own culture
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Applied Anthropology
Definition
use of anthopological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems
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Medical Anthropology
Definition
theoretical/applied approaches from cultural and biological anthro. to study health and disease
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Cultural Anthropology
Definition
study of patterns of human behavior, thought, and emotions
as culture-producing/reproducing creatures
aka: sociocultural anthropology
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Culture
Definition
societies shared/socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which make experience and generate behavior
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Ethnography
Definition
detailed description of PARTICULAR culture
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Fieldwork
Definition
on-location research by anthropologists
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Participant Observation
Definition
learning culture through social participation and interviewing/getting to know individual members
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Ethnology
Definition
using anthro. theories and ethnographic accounts to study, analyze, compare and contrast different cultures
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Linguistic Anthropology
Definition
study of human languages
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Archaeology
Definition
study and analysis of material remains and environmental data

Applied archaeology: 1987 Garbage Project
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Historical anthro.
Definition
archaeological study where WRITTEN RECORDS exist
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Bioarchaeology
Definition
archaological study of human remains to understand influences of culture and human variations

i.e. hair, bones, teeth, etc
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Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
Definition
Control policy of construction to preserve historical remains and archaeology
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Physical Anthro. (Biological anthro)
Definition
systematic study of humans as biological organisms

i.e. human evolution, PRIMATOLOGY, growth/development, human adaptation, FORENSICS
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Molecular Anthro.
Definition
Anthro study of genes and genetic relationships to understand human evolution, adaptation and diversity
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Paleoanthropology
Definition
study EVOLUTION of human species, tracing back to Primates
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Biocultural
Definition
focusing on interconnection b/t biology and culture
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Primatology
Definition
study of living and fossil primates

Jane Goodall-primatologist ((found behavioral similarities between our species and chimpanzees))
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Forensic Anthropology
Definition
identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes
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Empirical
Definition
approach based on OBSERVATIONS instead of faith and intuition
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Hypothesis
Definition
tentative explanation of relationships within phenomena
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theory
Definition
explanation of phenomena supported by reliable data
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Culture Shock
Definition
anthropologist's personal disorientation and anxiety that may result in depression
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Globalization
Definition
worldwide interconnectedness , trade goods, human labor, finance capital, and infectious disease
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Anthropology
Definition
study of humankind in all times and places

Holistic-examining interconnections
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Franz Boas
Definition
Jewish immigrant who worked AGAINST ethnocentrism

U.S. ethnographer pioneer
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Clyde Snow
Definition
FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST

worked in documenting human rights abuses like DESAPERECIDOS in Argentina
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